Smallholder productivity, market access, and international linkages in rubber and palm oil production in Jambi Province (C01)

• Subject Area: Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Sociology
• Term: from 2012 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192626868

Transformation processes in Jambi continue rapidly, with expanding land use change mainly towards oil palm and – more limited – towards rubber. In the past years, smallholders were confronted with volatile and often extremely low prices for palm oil and rubber. These trends triggered effects along the value chain, in particular on management practices of smallholders, and on structural change at the trader level. At the farm level, this project will analyse the dynamics of technical and environmental efficiency, while at the trader level, changes in trade networks will be in the focus. Synthesizing both aspects will allow us to derive recommendations for a better functioning of the value chains for rubber and palm oil.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 990: Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Bernhard Brümmer